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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Stone Fox

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Use Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

This captivating and relatable novel follows ten year-old Willy as he tries to save his Grandfather's farm from tax collectors. If he can find a way to beat the undefeated Stone Fox in the National Dogsled Race, the prize money will be enough to pay the debt. John Reynolds Gardiner's Stone Fox presents rich themes of friendship, loyalty, and generosity that will engage students in asking thoughtful questions and supporting their responses by referencing, synthesizing, and making inferences from the text.

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Meeting 1

Using Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner, students will discover how asking and answering questions makes them a more focused reader and increases their understanding of the text. This first Book Club meeting challenges students to ask who, what, where, when, why, and how questions using the book's cover.

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Meeting 2

Asking and answering questions about the characters in the story is one way for readers to connect with the characters. This Stone Fox Book Club meeting focuses on not only asking questions about characters, but also answering the questions by citing the text.

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Meeting 3

When asking questions about the events in John Reynolds Gardiner's Stone Fox, readers will be able to better understand what is happening in the story and anticipate what might come next. This meeting provides a ready-to-use activity for students to practice this skill.

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This Stone Fox Book Club meeting takes answering questions a step further. Sometimes, authors like John Reynolds Gardiner don't leave the answers to our questions directly in the text, but rather provide clues about the characters and events. Students will practice reading these clues to answer their questions about the story.

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Meeting 5

This final Stone Fox Book Club meeting provides readers the opportunity to pull together multiple facts from the text and make a logical guess to answer their questions. Students will also demonstrate their synthesizing skills by creating Searchlight Memory Board as a culminating activity for this Book Club.

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Focus Assessment and Rubric

Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with asking and answering questions.

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Comprehension Assessment with Stone Fox

This 9 question Common Core aligned assessment can be used to determine students' overall comprehension of Stone Fox and their mastery of the Common Core State Standards.

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Running Record with Stone Fox

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Stone Fox. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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About the Book

Title: Stone Fox

Author: John Reynolds Gardiner

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Themes: Perseverance, Adventure, Decision Making, Winter, Family

ISBN: 9780062009661

Publisher's Summary:

Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather falls ill, he is no longer able to work the farm, which is in danger of foreclosure. Little Willy is determined to win the National Dogsled Race—the prize money would save the farm and his grandfather. But he isn't the only one who desperately wants to win. Willy and his brave dog Searchlight must face off against experienced racers, including a Native American man named Stone Fox, who has never lost a race.

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Stone Fox